Sundown

sparkling eyes, the blackout white blueprint of the cowherd, the feeling of the hopeful town and the clean, yet the tidy, rising unwillingly from the bovines' hooves and obscuring everything. The mental picture was set in the grayish-red shade of sundown. It was peculiar how one world could contain a world inside it.…

Paradigms between the Odyssey and the Home The Odyssey, by Homer, is a mythical tale of transformation, journey, struggles and return, with strong distinct layers of Greek culture and hospitality. It is an epic adventure featuring a strong, virtuous and admirable hero, Odysseus. While, Toni Morrison's Home accentuates a tale of redemption: an edgy and tortured story of a man's desperate search for himself in the world deformed by war. The story features two siblings: Frank Money, a…

Julie Otsuka’s novel, The Buddha in the Attic, is a communal narrative of the Japanese Picture Brides who immigrate to the US in the early 1900s. While their narrative is about the immigrant experience, concepts from postcolonial theory can be adapted and are applicable to their story. Throughout the novel, the Picture Brides are shown sharing similar symptoms of that of a colonized subject, embodying what Lois Tyson explains as a “colonized consciousness” (249). According to Tyson, “colonial…

“Desperta Laka ,desperta!” mommy says shoving and pushing me to wake up. I can’t breath. I see a orange light roaring through my home town Chala , Smoky air, screaming, and an engine starting up. Suddenly my window breaks ,glass shatters everywhere ,I see what was thrown “ Una lanza” weird shape, holes over it ,and bonely looking. “Laka ya vamonos.”She didn’t even let me take stuff. “Whats happening” I say. “ Laka Callate go to the bus now!” I listened and went down the stairs and out to the…

I miss Peg-Arm, who ruled with an iron fist. Literally. He was the reason I am where I am, but he was a skilled pirate. I feel bad that I only knew him for a short time. But that doesn’t matter anymore. I can’t change the past. Just floating in my dinghy now. Attempting to find land before another storm hits. Almost ended up like Peg-Arm when my dinghy flipped over. I don’t know where I am, or whether or not I’ll have enough food. All I’ve had to eat in the past 2 days has been a turtle that…

aspirant rebellions, but to her, Polynices was a man whose body was supposed to be buried like any other man, according to the Gods’ laws and Greek culture, that said that the spirit of an unburied corpse is doomed to wander the earth if not buried by sundown. While Antigone’s sister Ismene recognized this desire to fulfill the Gods’ wishes, act according to Greek culture and honor her brother Polynices, she refused to violate the King’s orders, emphasizing that, as women,…

As I embark on a journey to adulthood, I often find myself referring back to my résumé’s roadmap to define where I was, where I am, and where I will be. I find that it has been decorated with formality and intriguing action verbs like orchestrated, designed, and executed, throughout the years, yet the simplest sentence on the page makes me most proud. “I am a chicago public school graduate” and that simple statement defines who I am more than any other statement. Of course my parents instilled…

From the beginning of time, human civilization has fed upon the circulating world of obtaining, assembling, and broadcasting information upon a wide-spread scale. With sources ranging from the earliest form of publicized word to the current reality of active pictures and dramatic screenplay, society has been infused with an environment of news broadcast. Unfortunately, since the creation of television journalism, the overall goal has shifted from knowledgeable reports to pure entertainment. A…

pillar of Islam is charity. Charity is divided into two groups, giving money to support the teaching of Islam, or helping anyone in need. The fourth pillar is a completion of Ramadan, the holy month where Muslims are supposed to fast from sunrise to sundown for the entire month. The last of the pillars is to make a pilgrimage to Mecca from Medina, as Muhammad did to reclaim his city. After the five pillars, the rest of the religion is derived from the Quran and the Hadith. The Quran is the…

In 1929 the Morton Salt Works Company purchased all the surrounding salt mines, and began the excavation of the salt dome underneath the town of Grand Saline. With the newly discovered abundance of salt there were plenty of jobs to go around as The Great Depression began to settle upon the market. By the year 1945 there were 950 people employed by the mine in Grand Saline, and that number doesn’t include the transportation jobs that were created by the mine either. The added income in town…